Tag Archive: Rush Holt

New Jersey Assemblyman Andrew Zwicker is a physicist whose area of interest is the elusive goal of harnessing nuclear fusion to provide clean, cheap energy. Fusion is the energy behind the hydrogen bomb, and people have been trying to tame…Read more

Here’s some quotes on nationalism & patriotism assembled by my friend Carl Bunin in Huntington Woods, Michigan, my old neighborhood. Carl and I helped found the Huntington Woods Peace, Education & Citizenship Project as the Iraq War began. We wrote…Read more

There is so much irony to me in the outrage from Democrats at Trump’s nomination of Gina Haspel, who ran CIA’s first “black site,” and oversaw the destruction of video evidence of CIA torture in interrogations during the “War on Terror”….Read more

If you’re a Democrat living in the Borough of Flemington, you might get a call from me today. I’m one of the Democratic County Committee people in this town and we want to invite you to something. This event: Politics on…Read more

Against all scientific advice, the kind of thing first-graders know not to do, Donald Trump looks directly at the Solar Eclipse, August 21, 2017, White House. As impaired as the Trump administration is, they keep surprising me with new lows….Read more

In my part of New Jersey, we’re developing a tradition of electing scientists to make policy for us; statewide, federal. And now we have the chance to build on that, to re-elect our physicist-assemblyman Andrew Zwicker in LD-16 and send…Read more

The tipoff, of course, was the title of the hearing – Making EPA Great Again. It’s a wonder that Lamar Smith, the Texas Republican who chairs the House Science, Space & Technology, and his fellow Republicans, had the foresight to slip their red…Read more

America’s leadership in the world has always been due to the scientists and engineers and their support from the Federal government. They eradicated polio, invented the transistor which gave us computers and the internet, got us to the Moon and…Read more

Last night I made volunteer-to-volunteer calls for Peter Jacob for Congress at the Hunterdon Democratic HQ in Flemington with a bunch of my friends. I was really glad to see how many voters I called for him responded with a…Read more

It’s hard to remember a time when a celebrity’s throwaway line generated so much political angst: I like Bernie. I like what he stands for. I like what he believes. I like his policies. I like him. I think he…Read more